Email Author Mark Dischinger

2004 Stories by Mark Dischinger

• Listen to America

  published November 17, 2004

  FRI 11/19 When airlines first began providing in-flight music via headphones, Ivan Tcherepnin had a brilliant idea: He thought of... More >>

• Classics Meet the Cults

  published November 3, 2004

  Euclid Records (601 East Lockwood Avenue) moved into its new home in Webster Groves last year, and living near the Webster University Film Series'... More >>

• Conservatives? Anyone?

  published October 27, 2004

  THUR 10/28 Perhaps you, too, suffered through the interminable John Kerry interview conducted by MTV's Gideon Yago, wherein Mr. Kerry... More >>

• Ghouls Night Out

  published October 13, 2004

  Current Night & Day intelligence suggests that Halloween is imminent; this intelligence also indicates that area haunted houses are open for... More >>

• Host of Ghosts

  published September 29, 2004

  St. Louis is teeming with ghosts, some claim -- granted, we are approaching the Halloween month, so the city is packed with haunted houses, the... More >>

• Head Over Heels

  published September 29, 2004

  SUN 10/3 You've got to hand it to St. Louis: We're exploring every possible angle when it comes to reliving the 1904 World's Fair.... More >>

• Bloomin' Beautiful

  published September 22, 2004

  SAT 9/25 "All the world's a stage," Shakespeare once said. For our money, there ain't a set designer in the land who could come up... More >>

• Our Contemporary

  published September 8, 2004

  Has it really been just one year since the Contemporary Art Museum opened the doors to its new digs in Grand Center (3750 Washington Boulevard;... More >>

• Must Be the Money

  published August 18, 2004

  The trouble lately is that some people are beginning to think Bush may not be as interested in the plight of the common man as his Texas grin... More >>

• Dog Days of Summer

  published July 28, 2004

  SAT 7/31 Are we almost out of Lewis & Clark activities yet? Of course not! Despite 200 years of study time since Lewis & Clark's mystic... More >>

• French Tips

  published July 14, 2004

  July is a month hot enough to breed revolution -- the fact that we can't throw off the invisible hand of the sun gets people angry enough to... More >>

• The Boathouse Rocks

  published July 7, 2004

  The original Boathouse in Forest Park (on Post-Dispatch Lake, just down the road from the Muny) was built in 1876, which makes it as old as the... More >>

• Play Fair

  published June 30, 2004

  In case you hadn't noticed, St. Louis gets pretty hopped up about Independence Day, as evidenced by the free über-party on the riverfront.... More >>

• The King James Version

  published June 16, 2004

  Frederick Douglass posed the following question during his 1852 speech commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence: "What, to the... More >>

• Free Wheelin'

  published June 9, 2004

  Among the sporting events arriving this summer amid the general hoopla of the World's Fair centennial celebration is one that's never seen St.... More >>

• Hit the Deck

  published June 2, 2004

  The hallmarks of suburbia are many and varied: a two-car garage, a couple kids, a strip of zoysia between your castle and your neighbor's. A deck.... More >>

• A Matter of Taste

  published June 2, 2004

  This weekend, two of St. Louis' tonier neighborhoods are holding "Taste" festivals. The Central West End's Art Fair and Taste (centered around... More >>

• You Gotta Be There

  published May 26, 2004

  Summer always surprises us -- shocks us, even -- for no one is ever ready for that first humid day when you walk outside and collide with a wall... More >>

• Cast the First Stone

  published May 19, 2004

  As any ditch-billy will tell you, when skipping rocks, you gotta wing 'em. Not pitching, not tossing, not hurling, just wingin'. Relax your wrist... More >>

• Have Stick, Will Travel

  published May 5, 2004

  Lacrosse is one of the fastest-growing sports in America, and yet its popularity still lags behind lesser sports such as soccer or Amish rake... More >>

• Holy Cow!

  published April 28, 2004

  SAT 5/1 Cards vs. Cubs: Can there ever be any common ground between these two contentious tribes? Not a truce, because it is their... More >>

• Dirty Movies

  published April 28, 2004

  Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's block of surreal cartoons created for the immature human of drinking age, has started seeping into the... More >>

• Lights! Camera! Life!

  published April 14, 2004

  It's a shame when you must resort to calling images iconic, but in some cases there just isn't another word. Case in point: Bob Dylan in... More >>

• Best of the Verse

  published April 7, 2004

  "We were thinking when we started the open mic seven years ago how great it would be for people to think of St. Louis as a place to come for... More >>

• Music for Bookstores

  published March 31, 2004

  Dunaway Books (3111 South Grand Boulevard, 314-771-7150) is a fantastic bookstore, a multilevel maze of shelves teeming with everything from old... More >>